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APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

At Wisconsin’s Silver Lake College, Matt Goff, dean of SLC Works, the school’s work college model, sees another potential boost from his school’s year-old program: fewer dropouts. She referred to him as “my best friend.”. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

I would have been a dropout.”. 1 request wasn’t about academics but access to mental health services. Referring to the in-school mental health counselor who is on site each day through a Say Yes partnership, Galenski noted, “I have, over the years, made many referrals for kids to see her on a weekly basis. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

UPCEA’s eDesign Collaborative ), I spent hours doing my own personal research on my university’s open access policy and scouring the library website. The collaboration allowed the bookstore access to the library’s online catalog to see which materials in faculty’s course packs were readily available in library journals.

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OER Libraries Dropout Case Study 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

These references to fictional characters are not incidental. He laments that his tenure in Chicago will be remembered for this more than for creating community schools, increasing access to Advanced Placement classes in high schools, and raising the high school graduation rate by 12 percentage points. Department of Education in 1980.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Students who exhibit behaviors like these are referred to an inter-departmental support team. This story about reducing the number of college dropouts was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Harvard’s dean, in his statement withdrawing from the rankings, referred people there. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency.

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Survey Data Report Dropout 121

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Parents and advocates say many special education students are steered toward what one parent referred to as the “five Fs”: food, folding, flowers, filing and filth, referring to cleaning and janitorial services. Frequently, transition plans demonstrate low expectations.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2023

During the 2021-22 academic year, eight CSU campuses referred students and funneled about $5.2 In 2019, California passed legislation meant to replicate the Jovenes model, and the number of students served has grown. million to Jovenes and eight other housing providers throughout the state.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are speaking about an equal right, an equal opportunity to access education,” said Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. Still, districts nationwide are now placing students in online learning in response to misbehavior, in a process referred to in certain circles as “virtualization.”

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

You’re kidding,” Schwiderson said, referring to the brand of parkas other Michigan students wear, which cost up to $1,550. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. The entire time I was there, I never saw college recruiters. Everybody else has got the coin that I don’t have.

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E-rate Report Dropout Course 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2019

But the incoming Queens College junior has been trained by the nonprofit College Access: Research and Action (CARA) to help guide students like Tasnia through the transition to college. At the same time, programs to fight this phenomenon are expanding amid a growing body of research suggesting that they work.

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Training Report Accessibility Study 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Districts across the country have been ramping up career education programs spurred, in part, by federal legislation updated in 2018 that provides funding for career education (commonly referred to as Perkins V ), said Matt Giani, a research associate professor in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies education policy.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.”

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MOOC Coursera Education Dropout 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. Many EdTech platforms maintain a record of such communications for future reference.

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Technology eBook Gamification Classroom 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2017

For kids, captioning is almost a waste of time,” said Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech affiliated with the Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) , a joint project of the university and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf.

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Blended Learning Assistive Technology Report Data 88

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

She casually refers to students she meets as “girlfriend” and “buddy.” Walking the hallways, she greets staff and students most often with a touch on the arm and a joke. But students also know she’s serious about making them work harder.

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Data Course Study Meeting 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Half of the community college students surveyed in both studies were housing insecure, which refers to the inability to pay rent or utilities or having to move frequently. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

We set a goal at the beginning of this year, we were going to have no losses and we were going to go to the Superdome,” Ganier recalled, referring to the stadium where the state championships are played. Renaissance lost four grueling non-division games in a row. “We When we started to take losses, I could see people starting to get down.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. There are gifted dropouts. Yet the internet and reference books teem with professionally endorsed lists of so-called gifted traits.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2023

The term refers to the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people, also known as the Sioux. In a June 2022 report , the department said it had deleted the term “equity” from the title of a report about equitable access to qualified teachers for low-income and minority students.

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Policies Report Dropout Study 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

She added, “Facebook plays no role in the Summit Learning Program and has no access to any student data.”). Sodexo?” — referring to the testing and cafeteria behemoths. (A spokeswoman for Summit said in an email, “We only use information for educational purposes. There are no exceptions to this.”

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

The guidelines included ensuring trans students have access to the restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that align with their gender identity. “Factually, we know that providing access to restrooms and locker rooms that are affirming to trans students does make them feel safer,” Smith told the Jackson Free Press.

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Guidelines Policies Report Dropout 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No She also referred Hernandez to an advocacy center at BMCC where she could apply for food, counseling and emergency funds. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Study Report Course Dropout 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Students need access to quality high schools, citizenship and real pathways to gainful employment, he added. President Trump has already committed to preserving the Obama administration’s deferred action program commonly referred to as DACA , which prohibits the prosecution of youth who did not come to the country of their own volition.

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Advocacy Secondary System Report 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This article includes references to self-harm, which some readers might find distressing. Many are high school dropouts. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, face a dropout cliff There was one constant: Danielle Dillard, Lucians UNI supervisor and success coach.

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Dropout Training Study Report 114

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Some of the reasons for the decrease include teens waiting longer to have sex, increased access to contraception and popular reality TV shows such as “16 and Pregnant,” which depicted the struggles of young moms. But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences.

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Report Accessibility Social Media Outcomes 141